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Women in Classical Hollywood Filmmaking

• Virgin-whore complex (and how this relates to Victorian ideals of femininity)
  
• Why Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino were able to succeed as female directors
  
• How the enforcement of the Production Code changed images of women in Classical Hollywood
  
• Haskell’s major themes of the “women’s film” genre (sacrifice, affliction, choice, competition)
  
• How Hollywood persuaded women to join/leave the workforce during/after WWII
  
• Femme fatale vs. Blond bombshell vs. Girl-next-door (what each character type reflected)